More on the delusional Thomas Friedman

Juan Cole agrees with my assessment of Thomas Friedman's latest idiocy.
Friedman and Imaginary Troops

The third is to double US troop strength in Iraq to 260,000 servicemen.

I'm not sure why Tom doesn't know this, but we don't have the troops to do that. There are only 10 fighting divisions in the Army, and standing up more would take 5 years. (A division is typically between 20,000 and 25,000 troops). You can't put all ten into Iraq (remember Afghanistan and South Korea?), and couldn't keep them all there permanently if you could. Friedman's suggestion literally cannot be implemented.
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It is an index of how desperate the US political class is that impractical ideas are put forward by major journalists in newspapers of record that have already reported on their impracticality.

Take that New York Times. How can they justify paying him to write such nonsense?